20050123
Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain
The Pentagon, expanding into the CIA's historic bailiwick, has created a new espionage arm and is reinterpreting U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over clandestine operations abroad!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050123/ts_washpost/a29414_2005jan22
Remember the LAST secret Pentagon Intelligence Unit, the Office of Special Projects? That was the office, later revealed to be infiltrated by Israeli spies, from which the bogus claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction flowed.
A New Osama Push: White House Expected to Up Bounty on Bin Laden’s Head from $25M to $50M...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1019782,00.html
It's been 1,224 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'
U.S. Ambassador Acknowledges Problems Ahead of Iraqi Elections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30447-2005Jan23.html
The United States has offered a $25 million reward for al-Zarqawi's capture or death -- the same amount as for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Report: U.S. can't win Iraq war
http://washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050122-094419-5388r.htm
Since the dawn of the industrial age, every nation that initiated wars LOST those wars.
Go home Yanks, says PM in waiting
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1452397,00.html
THE Shi’ite Muslim cleric tipped to become prime minister after next Sunday’s election in Iraq has said it will be the duty of the new government to demand the withdrawal of American forces “as soon as possible”.
In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29400-2005Jan22?language=printer
Man Who Supported U.S. Occupation Calls Americans 'the Devil' After Alleged Raid on His House
With the help of an email, you can hear in his own words what the youngest South Dakota soldier to die in Iraq was thinking before he left on the mission that killed him.
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,37197
"We'll miss him, but at least we got those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. What? We didn't? They didn't? Well, ummm, okay, then, at least we stopped Iraq from supporting Al Qaeda. No? They were enemies??? Al Qaeda is MOSSAD????? Goddammit why didn't someone TELL me. Okay, okay, okay, ummm, well, at least we paid Iraq back for 9-11. They didn't? No proof? Sheesh. Well, ahh, ummm, Becker played great poker, and was a buddy and we'll miss him. (sigh)."
American Justice: Pictures of an Iraqi arrested and executed
http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=37222
Soldiers ordered to hand in all photos
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=603756
So, tell us again about all those weapons of mass destruction these tortured men are supposed to know about?
Atrocities In Plain Sight
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/books/review/books-sullivan.html?ex=1106629200&en=58ad0622b8174996&ei=5070&oref=login
A naked prisoner appears to cower before an unmuzzled dog in a photograph taken at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad in late 2003 and leaked to The Washington Post a few months later.
Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/national/23vets.html?ex=1107433426&ei=1&en=1b0c43f5f4646266
"People would just come up to me and say, 'How'd you lose your arm?' " Mr. Acosta said. "And I'd say, 'In the war.' And they would be like, 'What war?' "
Hope no longer on the menu as weary Baghdad prepares to vote
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/21/wirq21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/21/ixworld.html
With water supplies intermittent, petrol queues lasting for days, and electricity for only a few hours, many are convinced that the country is in terminal decline.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20050123/ts_washpost/a29414_2005jan22
Remember the LAST secret Pentagon Intelligence Unit, the Office of Special Projects? That was the office, later revealed to be infiltrated by Israeli spies, from which the bogus claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction flowed.
A New Osama Push: White House Expected to Up Bounty on Bin Laden’s Head from $25M to $50M...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1019782,00.html
It's been 1,224 days since G.W.B. said he'd catch U.B.L. 'Dead or Alive!'
U.S. Ambassador Acknowledges Problems Ahead of Iraqi Elections
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30447-2005Jan23.html
The United States has offered a $25 million reward for al-Zarqawi's capture or death -- the same amount as for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Report: U.S. can't win Iraq war
http://washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050122-094419-5388r.htm
Since the dawn of the industrial age, every nation that initiated wars LOST those wars.
Go home Yanks, says PM in waiting
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1452397,00.html
THE Shi’ite Muslim cleric tipped to become prime minister after next Sunday’s election in Iraq has said it will be the duty of the new government to demand the withdrawal of American forces “as soon as possible”.
In One Night, Iraqi Turns From Friend to Foe
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29400-2005Jan22?language=printer
Man Who Supported U.S. Occupation Calls Americans 'the Devil' After Alleged Raid on His House
With the help of an email, you can hear in his own words what the youngest South Dakota soldier to die in Iraq was thinking before he left on the mission that killed him.
http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,37197
"We'll miss him, but at least we got those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. What? We didn't? They didn't? Well, ummm, okay, then, at least we stopped Iraq from supporting Al Qaeda. No? They were enemies??? Al Qaeda is MOSSAD????? Goddammit why didn't someone TELL me. Okay, okay, okay, ummm, well, at least we paid Iraq back for 9-11. They didn't? No proof? Sheesh. Well, ahh, ummm, Becker played great poker, and was a buddy and we'll miss him. (sigh)."
American Justice: Pictures of an Iraqi arrested and executed
http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=37222
Soldiers ordered to hand in all photos
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=603756
So, tell us again about all those weapons of mass destruction these tortured men are supposed to know about?
Atrocities In Plain Sight
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/books/review/books-sullivan.html?ex=1106629200&en=58ad0622b8174996&ei=5070&oref=login
A naked prisoner appears to cower before an unmuzzled dog in a photograph taken at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad in late 2003 and leaked to The Washington Post a few months later.
Few but Organized, Iraq Veterans Turn War Critics
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/national/23vets.html?ex=1107433426&ei=1&en=1b0c43f5f4646266
"People would just come up to me and say, 'How'd you lose your arm?' " Mr. Acosta said. "And I'd say, 'In the war.' And they would be like, 'What war?' "
Hope no longer on the menu as weary Baghdad prepares to vote
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/21/wirq21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/01/21/ixworld.html
With water supplies intermittent, petrol queues lasting for days, and electricity for only a few hours, many are convinced that the country is in terminal decline.
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